Baby Boomer Martial Arts Speak Wisdom?

Old karate baby boomer speaks wisdom? When you reach a certain age, say baby boomer age, ideas spin in your head; ideas, that may or may not make sense due to informational overload, years of experience doing way too many things, but yet yearning to do so much more. In the movie Shaolin, lyrics in the title song said...let me plant a seed of good will and walk this road of life together with you. Sometimes, all it takes is a seed. How we define this, is totally up to us.

As we age, we still have opportunities to learn, fulfill dreams, experience more, make a difference and help make this world a better place to live.

If you have ideas, feel free to send me your thoughts to:

babyboomersensei@gmail.com.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Senior Kata 70 to 79 Year Old Division

Looks like some old time Baby Boomers still got it. So if he can, you can!!!

James - When I show this to my associates who are in their 60's like myself, say "no way." But you answered succinctly "the WAY” which has been our core slogan when we first trained those many years ago. A lot of us baby boomers face physical challenges that prevent us from executing like high schoolers, and we should not allow things like painful arthritis or past torn muscles or ligaments from years of abuse and misguided training be deterrents. With that said and as old are we, we should consider those limits work with and around them, and promote truly “THE WAY of the Empty Fist.”

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http://www.babyboomersensei.com Was born and raised in Delano, California and grew up when roof antennas captured signals for three good channels on our Motorola black and white t.v.s; 10-hour-seven-days-a-week-no-questioned-asked-work-days paid low but grateful wages, $5 took care of doctor visits; text books were reused over and over again till their dog eared pages ripped off; teachers taught us to not only learn, but to think; the early morning air was clean and fresh that it stung your lungs; cuss words were “dang” and “gosh”; gas cost $.25/gallon; Joe Namath electrified the world with game winning touchdowns; women were beautiful without make up; pencils had teeth marks; everyone looked at each other eye-to-eye; boys learned how to drive a tractor before a car; musicians played songs that were unique to them; sister Theresa would whack us on the head with a stupid 12 inch ruler; libraries had answers to the universe; looking at the stars on top of the hood of a 58 Chevy late at night provided the best education in the world.